After a six-hour arduous trek, Wu Ming and his brother Secret Service Company crossed Gaojiashan and Zhangjiayuan, then climbed over the inaccessible Dongshan Pass, followed the thorny creek at the northern foot of Xiaodongshan, walked three kilometers and crossed two mountain beams, and finally arrived at the Dongkeng halfway mountain at two o'clock in the morning, which was nearly 400 meters northeast of Maopai Ling.

At night, the mountain village was silent, except for a few dim lights flashing on the large sunyard.

Lei Peng, deputy company commander and sniper captain, climbed to Wu Ming's side, handed the binoculars in his hand to Wu Ming, pointed in the direction of Da Sunping and whispered: "Master, look, the communist army didn't take our tent. ”

Wu Ming took the binoculars, vaguely saw the outline of the tent reflected in the dim light more than 500 meters away, grinned, and said in a low voice: "It is estimated that the main force of the Red Army has left at this time, otherwise it is impossible not to deploy a bright and dark outpost, get ready, and we will go down when the rope is lowered." ”

Lei Peng complained unwillingly: "Then our sniper team didn't come in vain?" You can't fight and you can't fight, and you don't let you want to be an assault striker, it's really boring. ”

"How can it be boring? How many times have you been on a mission like tonight? Don't think that you came over smoothly, how many times did you encounter danger on the way, but you didn't see it? If you hadn't ventured to turn on all the flashlights, you thought you would be here by now? Wu Ming patiently corrected the apprentice's misunderstanding.

Lei Peng thought for a while: "It's true, there was nothing to train before, but it was another feeling on the battlefield, and I felt that the intensity was not ordinary, especially the psychological fatigue came quickly." ”

Wu Ming was very pleased: "That's right, many times, psychological fatigue is more terrible than physical fatigue, especially for you snipers, psychological training is more important, after this battle, I believe you will soon be able to understand my previous course handouts...... Okay, go back and tell your squad to get ready, and you guys then slide down. ”

"Yes."

After checking the fixed end on the cliff, the deputy company commander Lei Peng was the first to put the buckle on his waist to the rope, and whispered to the assaulters beside him:

"After I go down, I can put down two more ropes, I look for a place to fix them, more than a hundred people rely on only one rope is too time-consuming."

"Understood!"

Four flashlights covered with green slowly shone on the bottom of the cliff, Lei Peng grabbed the rope, turned his back to the bottom, kicked his legs, and slid down three meters with a "swoop", his feet stepped on the vertical stone wall, and the sound of slight stepping suddenly came.

The sound sounded five times, and Lei Peng, who safely stepped on the cornfield below, shook the rope, and then turned on the flashlight covered with red cloth in his hand, and quickly threw down two more rolls of rope from above, Lei Peng only took three minutes to separate and fix the rope, and the speed of the overall decline of the army was three times faster in an instant.

Several dogs in the village began to bark, but because the mountain wind was too strong and it was dark night, no one noticed the anomaly behind the village.

The 150 brothers gathered in the cornfield at the foot of the mountain quickly acted in groups, Lei Peng lowered his head, listened carefully to Wu Ming's order, and then led six brothers to the east along the foot of the mountain, bypassing the river bay at the head of the village for more than 100 meters, and quickly found the villagers' wooden rafts according to memory.

The six brothers stacked two wooden rafts together, slowly pushed them into the water and gently prostrated them, successfully avoided the two checkpoints at the east end along the flowing water, rowed two kilometers without danger, quietly landed more than 500 meters behind the east pass, quietly touched the back of the pass along the side of the mountain, observed for a while, and then climbed up along the mountain peak.

After the company commander Lu Kuiyuan led two assault teams to successfully bypass the village, he directly touched the rear of the fortifications originally built by the headquarters of the northwest crossing, and did not find any movement after observing for a long time, Lu Kuiyuan flashed a few secret signals with a flashlight covered with green silk, and the fifteen commandos of the two squads quietly approached the traffic trench behind the fortifications.

Lu Kuiyuan immediately realized that the judgment made by regiment commander Wu Ming that "the main force of the Red Army will withdraw tonight or tomorrow morning" was extremely correct, so it seemed that the fortifications at the west crossing of Nanmian Village, which was separated by a mountain, should be the important place that the Red Army had to guard.

Wu Ming personally led the second platoon of assault very boldly, directly through the side alley of the old five families at the entrance of the village, and unknowingly touched the back of the giant rock in the north of Da Sunping, Wu Ming motioned to the brothers to rest for the time being, took out a telescope with a submachine gun on his back, prostrate under the side of the rock, and looked at a tent about 120 meters south with two horse lanterns lit up to observe carefully.

At 3:50 a.m., ten minutes before the overall action time, the night wind, which was not very strong, suddenly increased, and the dark and heavy sky suddenly cracked a few dazzling cracks, and an earth-shattering thunder exploded, followed by a series of rolling thunder, the wind roared in the mountains, and the heavens and the earth were instantly shrouded in thunder, lightning, and howling winds.

A few minutes later, the dense rain curtain was sprinkled in the frequent flashing thunder and lightning, and three Red Army officers ran out of the tent on the sundeck, one shouted loudly at the heavy rain, and the other two hurriedly ran into the tent, unaware that behind the rocks one hundred and twenty meters to the north, a ghostly figure had risen upright, raised two thick-barreled signal guns and pulled the trigger.

"Puff-"

Two red signal flares rose into the sky, emitting a dazzling red light in the rain curtain, and most of the sunyard and half of the village were illuminated by the red light, and several Red Army officers who had just taken refuge in the tent immediately rushed out when they found that the situation was wrong, and the sound of dense gunfire and grenade explosions suddenly rang out in the east and west of the village.

The Red officers and men inside and outside the tent were taken aback, and Deng Tingqian, the commander of the regiment covered in rain, pulled out his shell gun and shouted: "Enemy attack! All retreat, retreat south—"

In the tent, two regimental staff officers quickly put away maps and documents, and one asked how the enemy had come in? The other hurriedly replied, who knows? At least a regiment came in, otherwise there would not have been such a dense gunfire.

Under the loud command of regiment commander Deng Tingqian, the officers and men of the two companies who were resting in the ancestral hall next door rushed to the sunning in the rain, threw down the more than 300 prisoners who were waiting to be discharged on the spot, and quickly retreated southward.

It was only at this time that Wu Ming, who was hiding behind a huge rock, picked up his gun and shot fiercely at Tianyitong, and several brothers around him took out their grenades and threw them at the empty sunbath, and a series of explosions provoked the fire, illuminating Deng Tingqian, the regiment commander who fell behind the retreating team, and frightened the battle-hardened veteran to immediately accelerate, shouting as he ran, God has eyes and the rain is getting bigger!

The three flares on the eastern pass had already fallen, and after a brief panic among the officers and men of a company of the Red Army who remained at the pass, a fierce quarrel broke out.

Lei Peng at the rear of the pass was annoyed, seeing that the brothers under the mountain had begun to shout and charge, the opponent at the pass on the mountain ignored the frequent explosions from the village, picked up the machine gun rifle and was about to start the attack, in desperation, Lei Peng had to give a loud order, and the six brothers who were ambushed by his side immediately took out the grenade and pulled out the safety pin, and at the same time threw it to the rear of the defenders of a company below Lu.

The explosion roared loudly, and the debris that flew out pierced through the gunpowder smoke and crashed in all directions, shaking the souls of more than 100 Red officers and men who were preparing for battle.

After the 12 grenades were thrown, seven elite soldiers, including Lei Peng, crawled on a high place, set up two Czech machine guns and four machine guns and fired frantically at the edge of the defenders' position, and the officers and men of the first battalion charging below also frequently fired at the pass, and more than 120 Red officers and men had lost the courage to continue fighting under the front and rear attacks, and could only shout loudly and quickly retreat, and disappeared at the southern fork in the rear of the pass in less than three minutes.

Lei Peng, who had completed the intimidation mission, breathed a sigh of relief and lay down behind the rock with the six tired brothers to avoid accidental injury to the brothers who rushed up. Listening to the gunshots and shouts of killing that were getting closer and closer down the mountain, Lei Peng simply closed his eyes and let the heavy rain pour down, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When most of the brothers in the first battalion braved the rain and rushed to the pass, Lei Peng pulled out his flashlight and shot a pillar of light into the middle of the road below.

Lei Peng led the six brothers to climb down the wet mountain road, came to the familiar second company commander and asked loudly, "Your battalion commander didn't come up?" ”

"I've already rushed over...... The battalion commander personally led a company and a machine-gun platoon to rush into the southern fork in the road, and the deputy battalion commander was behind with a machine gun company! ”

After the second company commander finished answering, he asked loudly: "The engineer company has already controlled the pass, and Staff Officer Dai personally leads the team, and it is estimated that he will have to wait for the other two regiments led by the division commander to come up...... We don't have to wait, let's go straight to the village, right? ”

"Good! Kill into the village! Lei Peng roared loudly.

"Kill—"

In the torrential rain, the dense gunfire rang out again, and the shouting and killing that shook the valley overshadowed the sound of the rain, Yu Jishi, Ma Zhizhai and Chen Shizheng, who were far away at the foot of the mountain to supervise the battle, listened to the excitement of the three people in black military raincoats and applauded loudly, even Chen Shizheng was sincerely admired by Wu Ming's department.

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It was getting bright, and after two hours of heavy rain, it had subsided, and the three clear streams that flowed through the village had become muddy and quickened.

In the village, the gates of each house were closed, and the few local dogs in the village were too frightened to bark, and on the muddy and muddy sunbathing flat, a group of officers and men of the Fifth Regiment arrived one after another, and as soon as each company commander came to the sunbath, he ran to the door in the middle of the tent and reported loudly.

Wu Ming, who had changed into a gray ordinary military uniform, praised repeatedly, and ordered each company to immediately enter their respective defensive positions according to the previous arrangement.

At the foot of the barren slope in the south of the village, more than 340 rescued prisoners of the Fourth Regiment who did not want to go with the Red Army braved the light rain and busied themselves while digging pits, and on the side were the 537 corpses of the officers and men of the Fourth Regiment that had not had time to be buried before the Red Army retreated, and on the innermost side were the 83 soldiers who had died in the battle for days left by the Red Army, all of whom needed to be buried by these rescued captives who had just been rescued.

Wu Ming was not in the mood to go to the grave digging site to take a look, he held hot tea in his hand, sat on the marching bed calmly, and talked in a low voice with Lu Kuiyuan, the commander of the spy company who had changed into an ordinary military uniform.

Before he finished his cup of tea, Yin Dizhong, the commander of the first battalion who was soaked and covered in mud, came in to report, and then whispered a few words in Wu Ming's ear.

Wu Ming frowned: "Both of their legs are broken?" ”

"Yes! We just chased after us, and we all fired our guns in the air, and they ran in front, but the two of us accidentally slipped down the cliff, and it took a lot of effort for us to carry the man back...... If it weren't for your repeated admonitions before the war, I wouldn't want to suffer this crime. ”

Yin Dizhong took the opportunity to complain, although the first battalion did not hurt a single person in this battle, but it did not really fight a battle, and the officers and soldiers of the first battalion were very uncomfortable.

Wu Ming didn't take Yin Dizhong's words, but ordered in a low voice: "Send it to the old village chief's house immediately, and when Steve arrives, let him go and see." ”

Yin Dizhong pulled the corner of his clothes: "I'm wet, how can I be embarrassed to see Uncle Zhou?" You call Kui Yuan, this kid is handsome and likable. ”

Wu Mingha smiled: "If you don't want to, just say you don't want to, why are you looking for such a lame reason?" I know that you are unhappy in your heart, and your brothers are not in your heart, but who wants to do that? Wouldn't it be better to have a few fewer deaths? Just now when you came back and passed by the south, you also saw that there was a horizontal slope under the hillside, and there were more than 300 unfortunate people digging a pit in the four regiments. Okay, don't mention this matter again, go back and do a good job of the ideological work of the brothers, and ask you if there is a problem. ”

"Yes."

Yin Dizhong shook his head and left.

Wu Ming smiled at the reluctant Lu Kuiyuan: "Kuiyuan, you can go, take advantage of the fact that the chief of staff of the division seat has not arrived, and quickly send the two wounded Red Army to Uncle Zhou's house, if I go, I am worried that it will scare his old man." ”

Lu Kuiyuan pouted: "I'll go, I'll go, what are you looking for this lame reason for?" ”

"Hey! Boy, you want to rebel, you ......."